The library will be closed on Friday, Jan. 1, to allow our staff to celebrate the New Year. We will be open again on Saturday, Jan. 2, from 10:30 a.m. until 5:30 p.m.

Saturday, Jan. 9. at 12 p.m. we’re going to be doing Saturday Cinema! We’ll have a great time watching a cool movie on the big screen.

Wednesdays are wonderful if you’re a kid or a parent of one! Every Wednesday at 4 p.m. starting Jan. 13 we have a great Storytime for the little ones. Children can listen to a story, create cute art or craft projects to take home, and generally have a really fun time, so don’t miss it!

Want to get out and enjoy the cool weather? Come to the library and check out a Georgia ParkPass kit! You get free parking and free entry into most of Georgia’s State Parks, including the lovely Magnolia Springs, right next door in Jenkins County! It’s a great time to enjoy nature without all the crowds and distractions, so pick up the ParkPass today!

Want to cut down on those electric bills? The Department of Energy has given the Kill-A-Watt kit to public libraries all over the state to help you do just that! All you need to do is to plug in your appliances, and the Kill-A-Watt unit will figure out how much energy it uses for you.

New at the library:

The Mayo Clinic Diet: Eat Well. Enjoy Life. Forget about food scales and calculators. The doctors at the Mayo Clinic have helped literally thousands of people lose weight and get healthy. Here, they boil down what they have learned in helping others into five simple rules that help you lose the weight – and five habits to break to keep the weight off.

Links to these and other great sites can be found at www.sjrls.org:

WebMD: Energy Every Day

Winter blahs and the after-Christmas letdown got you down? WebMD has great ways to pep you up and get you living at top speed again.

Well, that’s all for now – see you at the library!